Sometimes We Talk — My inbox is flooded this morning with requests for a response to the latest Internet speculation about where Twitter is headed. It should come as no surprise that Twitter engages in discussions with other companies regularly and on a variety of subjects.

Twitter Wouldn't Sell For $1 Billion, Says Source — Update to our post last night about Google/Twitter talks: New sources say that Google is interested in acquiring Twitter, and has had talks with the company about a deal. Google's internal valuation, however, would value the company …

on url shorteners — URL shortening services have been around for a number of years. Their original purpose was to prevent cumbersome URLs from getting fragmented by broken email clients that felt the need to wrap everything to an 80 column screen. But it's 2009 now, and this problem no longer exists.

World's Fastest Broadband at $20 per Home — If you get excited about the prospect of really, really fast broadband Internet service, here's a statistic that will make heart race. — Or make your blood boil. Or both. — Pretty much the fastest consumer broadband in the world …

AT&T retracts new terms of service, apologizes — Looks like the uproar over AT&T's recently-tweaked wireless terms of service banning video streaming and p2p activity caused some hasty rethinking in Dallas — the company just sent us this statement:

VLC 0.9.9: The best media player just got better — If you've ever struggled to play a file you downloaded from the hinterlands of the Web, you clearly didn't try opening it with VideoLan's VLC media player, a free, hugely popular, and open-source media player.

Chrome marketshare for March 2009 — Google Chrome continued its upward marketshare march in March. I was looking at my browser breakdown tonight. Here's what I've got from the last 30 days in Google Analytics: — Some different browser marketshare numbers:

Wikia Death Proves Google Is Search-Startup Killer — Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' open source, human-powered Google killer died a quiet death Tuesday, making Wikia.com the latest object lesson in the futility of trying to unseat Google as the king of search engines.

Facebook wants you to give credit where credit is due — Facebook is testing out a way for people to show how much they appreciate friends' status updates, links and other items on the site — its a new feature called “credits.” The idea is a more advanced form of commenting or liking …

How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse — On the surface, April 1 came and went without a peep from the dreaded Conficker megaworm. But security experts see a frightening reality, one where Conficker is now more powerful and more dangerous than ever.

Image Search Preview Page Overhaul — We've revamped the Yahoo! Image Search preview page to make it a lot easier to use. Now, when you click on an image from the image search results page, the top bar opens to reveal a richer and sleeker interface that displays a larger view of the image …

Analyst: YouTube Could Lose $470M This Year — A new report by Credit Suisse projects that video-sharing giant YouTube is on track to lose $470 million this year, writes Multichannel News. — Credit Suisse says YouTube will generate $240 million in revenue, but those revenues will be dwarfed …

Wait: Could ‘Bing’ be the new name for Microsoft's Live Search? — Maybe Kumo won't be the final new name for Microsoft's “Live Search” after all. “Bing” also still seems to be in the running. — It was almost a year ago that I received a tip that Microsoft was considering three new names for its Live Search engine.

Disney Says Hulu Getting Low On Cash — With all the rumors lately about Disney possibly cutting a deal with Hulu, various sources at Disney are talking to many on Wall Street about Hulu's financial situation saying the company is getting low on cash. While Providence Equity Partners …

Google force feeds Web 2.0 to US gov — And it comes right back up... Web 2.0 Expo When uber-Googler Andrew McLaughlin joined the Barack Obama Transition Team, charged with prepping the new administration for inauguration day, he had dreams of “bringing Web 2.0 to Washington.”

Group Presses FCC to Back Skype — WASHINGTON - The open-Internet advocacy group Free Press asked the Federal Communications Commission Friday to investigate whether Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. are violating federal rules by blocking the use of a new low-cost Skype voice service on Apple iPhones that use AT&T's 3G network.

Windows on Netbook PCs: A Year in Review — It's hard to believe it's been a year since we first started to see netbook PCs running Windows come to market. — Little did we know that these devices would evolve so much in such a short time. A year ago, they were Internet-centric devices defined mainly …

Microsoft has Windows 7 surprises up its sleeve — Microsoft is planning a couple of major new announcements around Windows 7 with the forthcoming release of the Release Candidate. — At a briefing at Microsoft's London headquarters today, the company's Windows OEM manager …

Murdoch Wants A Google Rebellion — The media mogul says Google is stealing from publishers. It could be the call to arms that newsrooms need. — Rupert Murdoch threw down the gauntlet to Google Thursday, accusing the search giant of poaching content it doesn't own and urging media outlets to fight back.

Apple stock is up 31 percent this year — The stock is not what it was in 2007, when it rose nearly 136% in the space of 12 months, but Apple (AAPL) is off to a good start in 2009. — From Jan. 2, when it opened at $85.88, to April 2, when it closed at $112.71, Apple has gained 31.24% …

3.2MP next-gen iPhone, new 5MP Apple device later this year? — Apple will upgrade the next-gen iPhone's camera to 3.2-megapixels, according to market sources in Asia. Manufacturer OmniVision is believed to have won the Apple contract to supply the 3.2-megapixel CMOS image sensor used in the smartphone …

Advertisers brace for online viral marketing curbs — Advertisers in the US are bracing themselves for regulatory changes that they fear will curtail their efforts to tap into the fast-growing online social media phenomenon. — Revised guidelines on endorsements and testimonials …

Meeting24.tv Keeps Online Meetings Simple — Meeting24.tv is a new web conference system that lets up to 24 users simultaneously hold meetings online through an extra-simple UI. The service is offered by WIT, a Tokyo-based research lab (meeting.24 is available in both English and Japanese).

France to Block The Pirate Bay, Disconnect File-Sharers — In order to clamp down on piracy the French have passed a new law requiring Internet service providers to cut off Internet access for persistent offenders. Under the new legislation ISPs have to warn alleged copyright infringers twice …

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